This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Mayor Villar: "Its not a yacht, its a boat"

"Angelena II", at least Mayor Antonio Villar didn't "rename and christen it" the west coast version of the "Monkey Business".

Great afternoon for a ride on the water of LA Harbor, we think not. But for many who wanted a closer view of the container cranes of Los Angeles Harbor, the Angelena II was the city-owned vessel of choice, thats if you knew of its existence.

Not wanting to engage in a battle of semantics with Mayor Villar on the classifications of sea-going vessels, this yacht (after all, would the City Terrace raised Villar call a Low Rider just a car?) has been used to give approved riders a visual experience one of the world's largest container ports. As KCBS Channel Two's David Goldstein reports, the likes of the Morongo Band of Indians were partakers in an Angelena II cruise on the port waters. Maybe they are waiting for the day when the Salton Sea is open to the Gulf of California and join their Cabazon brothers in building a container port in Indio, based upon the knowledge gained from their yacht ride?

But seriously, in these days of fiscal belt-tightening, what is the Port of Los Angeles doing spending big bucks in refitting a yacht for joy ride junkets around the harbor? One can gain the same experience of a harbor cruise by enjoying a ride on one of former CD 15 City Council Candidate Jayme Wilson's dinner excursions on the water. There is also a City of Los Angeles Fireboat that could also double as a tour boat and educational platform for school kids. Yet, at the end of the day, a world port is befitting of a world-class yacht, ... or boat in the public conscious eyes of Mayor Villar.

1 Comments:

MORE SPOILS FOR THE HAVES. GOOD FOR CBS FOR EXPOSING THIS. THERE IS MONEY BUT THESE PEOPLE IN OFFICE AREN'T TALKING. WHEN THE PEOPLE RUNNING FOR MAYOR CAN GET IN ONE MONTH A COUPLE OF MILLION DOLLARS TO WIN A ELECTION SOMETHING IS WRONG. ELECTIONS SHOULD BE OPEN TO ANYONE BUT THEY AREN'T ,WHY? WE WILL KEEP HAVING A REPLAY OF THE SAME PROBLEMS AS LONG AS THIS SYSTEM STAYS AS IS.